And the excited referee went over on his back also, and kicked his heels foolishly in the air as he cried: "Down!" Jumbo had won the match.

In other cases there were neck and neck races for favored locations, and sometimes it would have puzzled an experienced referee to have determined which was really the winner of the race.

They had a committee to select prizes and open a book for entries, and when the day of the races came they had a judges' boat with gay bunting all over it, and a badly frightened referee and a host of reporters, and police boats to keep order.

An intelligent referee with no bias for either must have pronounced the judgments equally just.

Barely had the words left the little referee's lips whentop, tap, slap!Merriwell had struck Diamond three light blows with his open hand.

Would the up-river breeze never subside and give them conditions that would be satisfactory to the meticulous referee? Deacon lurched heavily in his seat.

Of course no actual property had been obtained, and Smith had had no hand in securing the honorary gratuity, and it is difficult to follow the reasoning of these sapient referees.

The point was submitted to the Duke of Wellington, as a kind of universal referee in matters of precedence and usage.